What are the responsibilities and job description for the VDC Coordinator - Multifamily position at TDIndustries and Careers?
Job Summary :
Our Partners (employees) are the core of our success. As an employee-owned company, you have a voice, a stake, and a clear path to grow. Recognized by FORTUNE Magazine as a "100 Best Company to Work For," we invest in top training, career development, and a culture built on trust and servant leadership.
Join a growing team where your skills matter, and your future is built to last.
At TDIndustries, we believe opportunity should be built — and shared — by all. Whether you work with tools or technology, in the field or the office, we hire and grow people based on skill, potential, and integrity — never labels. We value the diverse paths that bring people to our team and welcome Partners of all backgrounds, including differences in race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, ability, military service, and more. What matters most is how we work together to build excellence.
Essential Duties:
The VDC Coordinator prepares and maintains detailed design drawings, schematics or specifications typically using computer-aided design software. Works closely with design originators (e.g., engineers, designers) to resolve design details or discrepancies or to prepare drawings of unusual, complex or original designs which require a high degree of precision using computer-aided drafting (CAD) or computer-aided engineering (CAE) equipment as well as BIM/Revit software and programs. Creates, modifies and controls detailed two- and three-dimensional parts and assembly drawings from engineers' and technicians' sketches, plans and written and verbal instructions. Develops and maintains drafting standards and procedures.
Company Overview:
Founded in 1946, TDIndustries is a premier, employee-owned Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) company delivering full-lifecycle building solutions—from design and construction to service and facilities maintenance. We power critical environments like hospitals, schools, data centers, stadiums, and commercial buildings across Texas and the Southwest.
Our Partners (employees) are the core of our success. As an employee-owned company, you have a voice, a stake, and a clear path to grow. Recognized by FORTUNE Magazine as a "100 Best Company to Work For," we invest in top training, career development, and a culture built on trust and servant leadership.
Join a growing team where your skills matter, and your future is built to last.
At TDIndustries, we believe opportunity should be built — and shared — by all. Whether you work with tools or technology, in the field or the office, we hire and grow people based on skill, potential, and integrity — never labels. We value the diverse paths that bring people to our team and welcome Partners of all backgrounds, including differences in race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, ability, military service, and more. What matters most is how we work together to build excellence.
Essential Duties:
- Generates construction and fabrication drawings for manufacturing utilizing Autodesk Fabrication Revit and/or AutoCAD software platform systems for a variety of commercial and residential/multifamily projects
- Provides onsite support for field personnel, when needed, and interfaces with other team leaders, the group manager, process managers, project managers, the shop fabrication managers and field supervisors
- Reviews engineering and contractual documents and coordinates the architectural and structural documents with other members of the project team to ensure accuracy and completeness
- Reviews equipment submittal documents for accuracy and completeness.
- Coordinates draft construction drawings with other trades to ensure routes and clearances are understood and no obstructions exist
- Performs site surveys and field measurement work as needed to support the conceptual and design drawing efforts
- Make final checks and reviews trade drawings prior to fabrication release
- Provides completed and complex construction drawings to the shop for parts manufacturing and to job site management to use in the construction and installation of material and equipment
- Reviews contractual documents and construction drawings for apparent conflicts with architectural and structural documents and ensures compliance with local code requirements
- Identifies each of the issues that surface during the review and brings it to the attention of project management for clarification and resolution through the request for information (RFI) process
- Manages document control during the detailing process
- High School Diploma or GED is required
- Associate’s degree in Drafting, Design Technology or related field is preferred
- 3 years of relevant experience as a VDC Coordinator
- Construction/MEP industry experience preferred
- Experience with multifamily, residential, hospitality, student housing, senior living projects preferred
- Proficient knowledge in:
- Autodesk Software (Revit, CADMEP, AutoCAD, Navisworks)
- Autodesk Construction Cloud (BIM 360)
- PC skills, specifically Microsoft Windows Applications (Word, Excel, Outlook & PowerPoint)
- Blue Beam Studio
- Knowledge in the following areas:
- Plumbing systems
- Mechanical systems
- Domestic water systems
- Sheet Metal / HVAC
- Trade license extremely beneficial
- Working knowledge of drawing production and standard construction techniques and principles